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☮ ♥ ♬ 🧑‍💻<p>Day 20 💰💰🏭🏦🛢️☢️🕍⛪️🙏🔥</p><p>“spin-off of the US-based <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/CPAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CPAC</span></a> – short for Conservative Political Action Conference – the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Sydney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Sydney</span></a>-based outfit described itself as a “values-based” organisation that “espouses the best of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Howard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Howard</span></a>, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Reagan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Reagan</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Thatcher" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Thatcher</span></a> while exploring new ideas and themes for the coming generations”. </p><p>Guests at the August event included <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/OneNation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OneNation</span></a> senator Pauline Hanson, Michelle Pearse, the CEO of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AustralianChristianLobby" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AustralianChristianLobby</span></a>, and broadcaster and soon-to-be alleged sex offender, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AlanJones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlanJones</span></a>. </p><p>Overseas talent included Jay Aeba, chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union and Heather Wilson, mother of six and co-founder of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/GiveSendGo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GiveSendGo</span></a>, a <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Christian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Christian</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/crowdfunding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>crowdfunding</span></a> network which has helped raise money for <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/NeoNazis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NeoNazis</span></a> and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AntiVaxxers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AntiVaxxers</span></a>”</p><p>“Then, in 2018, investment banker and long-time <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/ClimateConspiracist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateConspiracist</span></a> Maurice Newman, billionaire storage king Sam Kennard, and David Adler, of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/FarRight" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FarRight</span></a> Australian Jewish Association (AJA), got together to form <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AdvanceAustralia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AdvanceAustralia</span></a>. Money was no problem: <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HedgeFund" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HedgeFund</span></a> manager and <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberal</span></a> Party donor Simon Fenwick tipped in $190,000; a further $400,000 came from Sydney <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Establishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Establishment</span></a> couple Rodney and Judith O’Neil, and the Taylor <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/winemaking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>winemaking</span></a> family.</p><p>Advance pitched itself as a champion of the <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/SilentMajority" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SilentMajority</span></a> – <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/HowardsBattlers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HowardsBattlers</span></a> 2.0. But its real concerns were better expressed by another early backer, <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/hotelier" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hotelier</span></a> James Power, who was then engaged in a battle to prevent women from becoming members of <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Brisbane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Brisbane</span></a>’s <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Tattersall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tattersall</span></a>’s Club.”</p><p>If you noticed a darker turn to the election this week, here’s a good explanation of the WHY and HOW. Also I see Tony 🧅 got a new job. </p><p><a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/AusPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AusPol</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/LNP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LNP</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Nationals" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nationals</span></a> / <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/Australia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Australia</span></a> &lt;<a href="https://archive.md/wY3Cn" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.md/wY3Cn</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>&gt; / &lt;<a href="https://theage.com.au/national/copied-the-maga-model-the-grassroots-lobby-group-funded-by-some-of-australia-s-richest-20250408-p5lq6k.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theage.com.au/national/copied-</span><span class="invisible">the-maga-model-the-grassroots-lobby-group-funded-by-some-of-australia-s-richest-20250408-p5lq6k.html</span></a>&gt; (paywall)</p>
Chuck Darwin<p>Miyagawa says the studies collectively provide increasingly converging evidence about when these geographic splits started taking place. </p><p>The first survey of this type was performed by other scholars in 2017, <br>but they had fewer existing genetic studies to draw upon. </p><p>Now, there are much more published data available, which when considered together point to 135,000 years ago as the likely time of the first split.</p><p>The new meta-analysis was possible because “quantity-wise we have more studies, <br>and quality-wise, it’s a narrower window [of time],” <br>says Miyagawa, who also holds an appointment at the University of São Paolo.</p><p>Like many linguists, Miyagawa believes all human languages are demonstrably related to each other, <br>something he has examined in his own work. </p><p>For instance, in his 2010 book, <br>“Why Agree? Why Move?” <br>he analyzed previously unexplored similarities between English, Japanese, and some of the Bantu languages. </p><p>There are more than 7,000 identified human languages around the globe.</p><p>Some scholars have proposed that language capacity dates back a couple of million years, based on the physiological characteristics of other primates. </p><p>But to Miyagawa, the question is not when primates could utter certain sounds; <br>-- it is when humans had the cognitive ability to develop language as we know it, <br>combining vocabulary and grammar into a system generating an infinite amount of rules-based expression.</p><p>“Human language is qualitatively different because there are two things, <br>words and syntax, <br>working together to create this very complex system,” <br>Miyagawa says. </p><p>“No other animal has a parallel structure in their communication system. <br>And that gives us the ability to generate very sophisticated thoughts and to communicate them to others.”</p><p>This conception of human language origins also holds that humans had the cognitive capacity for language for some period of time before we constructed our first languages.</p><p>“Language is both a cognitive system and a communication system,” <br>Miyagawa says. </p><p>“My guess is prior to 135,000 years ago, it did start out as a private cognitive system, <br>but relatively quickly that turned into a communications system.”</p><p>So, how can we know when distinctively human language was first used? </p><p>The archaeological record is invaluable in this regard. </p><p>Roughly 100,000 years ago, the evidence shows, there was a widespread appearance of symbolic activity, <br>from meaningful markings on objects to the use of fire to produce ochre, a decorative red color.</p><p>Like our complex, highly generative language, these symbolic activities are engaged in by people, and no other creatures. </p><p>As the paper notes, “behaviors compatible with language and the consistent exercise of symbolic thinking are detectable only in the archaeological record of H. sapiens.”</p><p>Among the co-authors, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tattersall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tattersall</span></a> has most prominently propounded the view that language served as a kind of ignition for symbolic thinking and other organized activities.</p><p>“Language was the trigger for modern human behavior,” Miyagawa says. </p><p>“Somehow it stimulated human thinking and helped create these kinds of behaviors. If we are right, <br>people were learning from each other [due to language] and encouraging innovations of the types we saw 100,000 years ago.”</p><p>To be sure, as the authors acknowledge in the paper, other scholars believe there was a more incremental and broad-based development of new activities around 100,000 years ago, <br>involving materials, tools, and social coordination, <br>with language playing a role in this, but not necessarily being the central force.</p><p>For his part, Miyagawa recognizes that there is considerable room for further progress in this area of research, <br>but thinks efforts like the current paper are at least steps toward filling out a more detailed picture of language’s emergence.</p><p>“Our approach is very empirically based, grounded in the latest genetic understanding of early homo sapiens,” Miyagawa says. </p><p>“I think we are on a good research arc, and I hope this will encourage people to look more at human language and evolution.”</p><p>This research was, in part, supported by the São Paolo Excellence Chair awarded to Miyagawa by the São Paolo Research Foundation.</p><p> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Shigeru" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Shigeru</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Miyagawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Miyagawa</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">frontiersin.org/journals/psych</span><span class="invisible">ology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1503900/full</span></a></p>
Skullvalanche<p>Okay, next up <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/TemperanceRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TemperanceRiver</span></a> <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/Rye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rye</span></a> </p><p>Initial thoughts: whoa. This gives <a href="https://gladtech.social/tags/Tattersall" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tattersall</span></a> a run for the most punch you in the face with oak and rye flavor I've ever encountered. It's like someone gave me a wood stave soaked in rye and told me to wring it out into my mouth. In a good way. This will stand up to mixers, I can tell already. If you're into "well rounded" and "smooth sippers" this is not your drink. As a rye fan, this is great. </p><p>Grade: hell yeah.</p>